Flash Art Spring 2023 - FUCK THE BAUHAUS (new sculpture)

Flash Art is an international quarterly magazine and publishing platform dedicated to thinking about contemporary art, exploring the evolving cultural landscape through the work of leading artists, writers, curators and others.

Over the past decade, sculpture as a medium has undergone considerable stress and reappraisal. It has been hybridized into increasingly installational (in tandem with set design and display) and performative forms. In this regard, we have noted that artists using sculpture as their primary medium today — from Aria Dean to Mimosa Echard to Anne Imhof — are predominantly female. We have also noticed greater attention being paid to sculpture in the context of fashion, the work of Craig Green and the designer duo Ottolinger among recent examples.

An investigation of new forms of sculpture in this latest issue was almost unavoidable. The aesthetics of these sculptures are largely incorporated into our daily lives. Think of the great contemporary art museums of Europe: Kunsthaus Bregenz, Kunstmuseum Basel, Martin-Gropius-Bau. The Bauhaus is everywhere. It has been the indelible sculptural sensibility of artists who revolutionized contemporary sculpture — such as Klara Liden, Nora Schultz, and Isa Genzken — who have brought a kind of positive-negative balance to these spaces.

Cover: Isabelle Albuquerque